Lowry Rush Watkins, Jr., a native of Louisville,
Kentucky, was the son of Barbara Bullitt and Lowry Rush
Watkins. Mr. Watkins attended Aquinas Preparatory
School and was then graduated from the University of
Louisville with a B.S.C. in Finance.

Mr. Watkins is a licensed pilot, rated as a flight and
ground instructor, instrument, glider, seaplane, DC-3,
B-25, B-17. He is a semi-retired real estate developer.

Memberships

* Society
of the Cincinnati

* General
Society of Colonial Wars

* Order of
Indian Wars of the United States

* Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
(Knight of the Order)

* Order of
the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of
America

* Order of
the Merovingian Dynasty

* Colonial
Order of the Acorn

* Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

* Welsh
Society of Philadelphia

* General
Society of Mayflower Descendants

* Baronial
Order of Magna Charta

* Order of
Americans of Armorial Ancestry

* Morgan's
Men Association

* General
Society Sons of the Revolution

* Huguenot
Society of America

* National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

* General
Society of the War of 1812

* Military
Order of the Southern Cross

* Royal
Society of Saint George

* Sons of
Confederate Veterans

* National
Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

* Huguenot
Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony
of Virginia

Other Notes
Mr. Watkins is a member of Pendennis Club, Oxmoor
Country Club, University Club, Limestone Bay Yacht Club,
and Captain’s Quarters Yacht Club. He enjoys boating,
flying, polo, genealogy, dancing, and American and
European history.

He is a Sponsor of the University of Louisville, School
of Business, having established an Award, Lecture,
Scholarship Chair. Mr. Watkins is also a Sponsor of
University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of
Law, having established the William Marshall Bullitt
Award, Lecture, Scholarship, Chair. He also
endowed the Thomas Walker Bullitt Scholarship at Centre
College in Kentucky, in memory of his great grandfather.
Mr. Watkins is a
Sponsor of the Oldham County Historical Society, College
Summer Internship in History.

He is a contributing author for the best-seller Solicitor General Bullitt: The Life of William
Marshall Bullitt, a biography about his maternal
grandfather. Mr. Watkins is a lifelong
Episcopalian.